Tuesday, January 14 2020
THE BIG ISSUES
LEADING THE AGENDA
AfriForum leans on gay-bashing columnist in apartheid flag case
In the case over gratuitous displays of the old SA flag, AfriForum has found an unlikely bedfellow in Jon Qwelane
He took on his municipality and won – but lost his family
Judge says Buffalo City has behaved like characters from ‘Fawlty Towers’, but man’s victory is pyrrhic
Shot dead a week before turning one: Reiger Park gang war’s tiny victim
Little Siya was shot as his sister carried him and scurried for cover during a gang revenge shooting
SMART NEWS
IN ONE TAKE
‘Communities, not state, must keep schools safe’
Department of basic education says people living near schools must keep an eye out to stop vandalism
No kidding around: security guards for crime-ridden schools
The KZN education department will deploy 3,000 security staff in the 2020 academic year
Court spurns worker who asked it to force Cogta to promote him. Why?
Limpopo treasury turned down department’s request to approve his new job, and judge agrees with its reasons
Give whistleblower his job back, protector tells SA nuke body
SA Nuclear Energy Corporation subsidiary gets tongue lashing for victimising senior staff member
Kirsten conquers her fears and (nearly) the sand at Dakar
She swore she’d never tackle the gruelling rally. Now the SA woman biker is in a tight race to the finish in Saudi
IDEAS
FEEDING YOUR MIND
In politics, size matters, even if you have to ...
The size of crowds retains an urgent grip on leaders’ egos, hence the ability to stuff 3 million supporters into a café
African women scientists square up to climate ...
Amid the perils of a warming planet, fostering technical expertise among women reaps significant rewards
SNAPSHOT
Six things about SA you need to know
Heartbreak over theft of school ‘Clanger’
Six collapse after ingesting ‘unknown substance’
Notorious hacking group targets banks
Girl, 14, among 10 rescued from ‘brothel’
Pilot, passenger die in plane crash
Elderly man dies in lawnmower accident
THE VISUAL SIDE
WORLD
THE NEWS YOU DON'T NORMALLY GET TO HEAR
Angola’s Isabel dos Santos cries ‘witch hunt’ as ...
Africa's richest woman who’s becoming pariah at home says crackdown is aimed at her father’s influence
SNAPSHOT
6 things you need to know about the world
Sober supers lay down the law
Kylie ad misfires amid mega blazes
Kiwis won’t be a mate to koalas
Ex-pope throws book at celibacy
‘Spider-Man’ scales skyscraper for strikers
Race against time for war stories
THE BUSINESS
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Our only way out is to stop complaining and blaming
Is it impossible to get a universally acceptable definition of the common good? I don’t think so
Edcon and Massmart get their lame ducks in a row
Only so much deckchair rearranging can camouflage failure to develop a successful retail strategy
Sibanye-DRDGold deal turns dead weight into a dead cert
Suddenly tailings regarded as a longer term liability were transformed into a stake worth R900m
LIFESTYLE
CULTURE COMES ALIVE
Just for the record: Vinyl still an island in the streaming
A fortnightly review of music on vinyl
Tune you what, Bullet and the Beast are like punk and gospel
The biographies of the two World Cup-winning Boks differ in tone and flavour as much as their life choices
Truth be told: The 10 best biographies to burn your ears
From politics to sport and pop, celebs spill their souls in these unmissable memoirs
Durban rolled into New York with a splash of YSL blue
Artist Louis de Villiers’ show in Joburg explores how we quantify success, status and social belonging
SPORT
FINISH LINE ESSENTIALS
SPORTS DAY: From F1 champ to Dakar rally stage winner?
Your roundup of the sporting news of the day
Bribes and extortion ‘rife’ to cover up athletes’ positive drug tests
Trial of former athletics chief Diack begins in France over cash for doping cover-up and money laundering
Blast from the past
Today in SA sports history: January 14